The Lii

In addition to the original Type A races, a new race has been added to the Terraverse lore as part of a story arc that takes place in a new galaxy, known as "Faraway". The Lii are a light blue skinned humanoid race, very similar in size and shape to Terrans. 
The Lii are originally encountered by the expedition to Faraway as a hostile force with a similar technology level, that quickly overwhelms and nearly destroys them.

The Lii Race
The Lii are born of the world Lii'una, they are a humanoid race with light blueish skin and naturally red hair. They have small brightly coloured frills in place of ears that both allow them to hear slightly better than Terrans and breath under water. On average they live a similar length of time to the Terrans (around 200 Terran years).

Lii'una
The Lii's homeworld, Lii'una is a world covered entirely by a single huge jungle of mega-fauna, with trees reaching nearly half a kilometer high. Accessible only by a few massive sinkholes the entire jungle is sitting atop a massive cave system, forming a giant cavernous area in which most of the Lii's cities both hang from the roof and protrude from the floors. The caves are covered in bio luminescent plants that light up the vast majority of the huge supports that hold up the cave. With water coming mostly from the surface in huge waterfalls, that then converge into the many rivers and lakes, that fill the cave system. The native creatures that live in the "undersystem" are able to see perfectly in the near pitch dark, although the Lii do have an affinity for the dark, their dark-vision is not on par with many of the creatures that call the undersystem home, many of them more than capable of consuming a Lii whole.

The Lii Government
The Lii control a large portion of Faraway, due both to the very few other native races and their large military force. The Lii's government, ruled from Lii'una is a bizarre mixture of an empire and a democracy, in which the people vote, sometimes on a daily basis, on topics for the more imperial side of the government to judge the public's opinion on. They are able to vote from most computers, allowing one vote on each topic, once logged in with a person's user. The votes are each categorized based upon a person's standing in society, adding move value to the votes of those with higher levels of education. Imperials are unable to vote. The imperial side of the government makes all the decisions within the Lii's system. The imperials are based upon bloodline, however, they avoid inbreeding and new bloodlines are regularly introduced to the imperial lines. The Lii government is regarded widely as a fair system by both those inside and outside of it. They do not enslave other races but welcome them into their system, sometimes forcefully, although any resistance rarely lasts long. The imperials regarded the Faraway expedition as a severe threat to their rule as their technology is on par and in a rare occurrence go against the popular vote in initiating a preemptive strike.

Main military ships
The Lii's military force primarily uses two main ship classes and a multitude of other support ships. 
Their primary fast attack ship is a destroyer class, equipped with 4 large gun turrets. Like the majority of Lii ships they have 3 large wide engines stacked atop each other upon their rear, white armour plates and multiple large antenna on their fore faces.

The Lii's Heavier attack ship is a Battleship class, equipped with 7 large gun turrets. The battleship class has a similar architecture to the Destroyer, including a similar style of 3 rear engines and multiple white armour plates. The Battleship also has a greatly increased sensor range thanks to the additional antenna. 

The Lii ships are technologically similar in strength to the Alliance ships that took part in the Faraway expedition giving their large numerical advantage an additional edge.

Basic timeline of the Terraverse, Part 3

The Alliance, Itzillians and many members of the federation arrived in the original universe in what they estimated to be TMY -1,506,334, a new calendar was started which was given the designation AR(After Return). The Federation quickly began work on "Outposts", colossal space stations reaching over 37.5km in length and able to comfortably house millions.  These space stations were placed around the first few star-systems "claimed" by the federation. The federation launched swarms of automated probes designed to detect any life and relay it's location back to a central hub in the federation's new home system. The probes reported the location and basic data about each and every system they visited. Not one contained life.
After some substantial database searching and impressive mathematics the federation eventually located Terra Maxima, Twill, Draco and Fraya. To their surprise they found them all to be lifeless rocks. They searched for many years but did not find any signs of life, intelligent or otherwise in this new universe. The federation began to look for suitable planets to settle but, unable to find any that did not require terraforming they decided to construct giant space stations, massive habitat rings, using "atmospheric shields" (the same technology as the alliance used in the hangers of star ships to keep air inside but allow ships to pass through) to keep an atmosphere in place on these stations. It was then that it became apparent that the federation were the race who had constructed the ring worlds that would later be settled by the Terrans. They had assumed that the ring builders, the Prioribus (meaning "first ones" in Terran), had been one race, but that was evidently not so.

There were a number of revelations that became apparent from this discovery. Firstly, they were alone in the universe, at least for the time being. Secondly, they had finally solved the mystery of why the Prioribus built ring worlds instead of settling on planets. But most importantly, the reason the for the Prioribus's disappearance all those years ago, before the birth of the Terran race, was about to become very important.

Life did not appear to be occurring naturally in the galaxy. A group of scientists, forbidden by the government and working in secret, prepared biological samples that could possibly, given enough time, evolve into complex life. Shortly after the last, and largest, ringworld was completed, the scientists, calling themselves Seminatores (meaning "sowers" in Terran) set out to seed life on as many worlds as they could. they reserved Terra Maxima, Draco, Twill and Fraya for last, in honour of their importance to the universe to come.

By the time microbial life started being found suddenly on worlds all through out the galaxy, the federation had dissolved into chaos. Separated only by ideology, two major factions appeared, taking on a familiar form. These two factions, calling themselves the Deus and the Haereticus, dissolved the federation into a civil war, sparked by the mysterious disappearance of one of the Seminatores.

The civil war, recorded as incipiens a novissimis temporibus ("war of the end times" in Terran) was long and bloody. Many of the outpost stations were destroyed, along with five ring worlds during the 357 year long conflict. The two remaining Illians sacrificed themselves to create the orbs that would create The Nine during the last few days of the war. It came to an abrupt end in AR 40,266 when a biological weapon was released into the shipping lanes. Nearly undetectable and with a very long incubation period followed by near instant death, it was silent but deadly. The bio-weapon was released in AR 40,265 and it's first victims began appearing nearly a year later. During the year long incubation the pathogen was highly infectious, and had spread to nearly every single member of the Prioribus.
By AR 40,267 only 132 souls remained alive. They lived out their lives as fully as they could aboard a single star ship, the Reliquiae. However, too afraid to dock to any remaining facility to repair the aging star ship,  life support, propulsion and communications finally went dark on board in AR 40,302. The crew was not able to restore them in time, and the last 54 members of the Prioribus suffocated in their sleep.

And thus, to the dust from whence they came, they returned

People of the Terraverse

The Terraverse is populated with many different races, from small animals to big ones to intelligent beings capable of bending the fabric of space-time, Leaving out the many animals for now, let's have a look at some of the intelligent races. There are two groups of races, type A races and type B races - inventive right?. These are not part of the lore but a way of classifying the lore. Type A races are seen all over the place, they include the alliance and a few others, they have a lot of lore and thinking put into them, too much in some cases. The type B races are not as fleshed out, they are often only hinted at or glimpsed occasionally, they tend to make up the background noise, they are also a lot more varied. So in no particular order, here we go:

Type A:

• Terran
• Du'lak
• Frayan
• Dracon

Type B:

• Freth
• Phanten
• Alcinnian
• Oparth
• Tharg
• Voyron Apeoid
• Voyron Insectoid
• Owlaffian
• Floranian
• Xenii
• Helio
• Flame

The different races each have their own home worlds and colonies, they have unique looks and cultures and this is most definitely not all of the type B races, there will be more to come as I delve deeper into the lore, some type B races may even be eventually upgraded to type A, if that does happen I will make an updated list of all the races. Let's take a closer look at the type A races:

TERRAN

The Terrans are very similar to humans, their culture developed on wards form a similar point to our own. They look so similar that you would not be able to tell them apart (Note: The biggest difference would be that Terrans have significantly longer incisors), and there's good reason for this: They were originally human, but over time I developed them into a separate species. They have all the regular pros and cons that humans have and are your baseline species. They are not identical though, Terrans age far slower than us and live to an average age of around 200 Terran standard years, that's about 288 earth years. 

The Terrans formed the Alliance first with the Du'lak and later included the Frayans and Dracons, they are held accountable for much of alliance culture, so i'm putting it here.

Their society is divided into nine "Factions" inventively labeled 1 to 9, each lead by one of the Illians. These Factions are similar to political viewpoints, they are groups that people assign themselves to based on their agreements with the views of that Faction. Factions hold little actual power on their own but the views of the leader can heavily influence the people they follow. The only time the Factions have ever had actual conflict was during the years leading up to and during the Alliance civil war. There was a Tenth faction created after the Time leap by Itzl Atavuli, daughter of the ninth Illian, that claimed their own territory under the Itzillian government, they remained on good terms with the alliance and included members from all races within it. Before the Itzillian government was officially recognized by the Alliance they were regarded as rebels (because they were) but whilst there was no actual fighting they did build up a sizable fleet under the flagship Spirit of rebellion (SoR).

DU'LAK

The Du'lak are the native people of Twill. They are very similar to the Terrans to the point that inter-species breeding was possible, They live for a full 250 Terran years and while they share many traits they are often far more varied between individuals. The Du'lak average height is very close to the Terran's however Du'lak males are significantly taller and bulkier than most Terrans while their females are often shorter and slimmer. Their skin is vividly coloured from black to white and all colours in between, they also have slight variations in their colouration covering them that form well defined stripes. Black and white are the rarest colourations and in Du'lak culture often considered regal. Blues and reds are the most common colours shortly followed by orange and purple, green and pink surprisingly rare but this is suspected due to the native flora of Twill and the use of skin colour as a camouflage. There are no creatures on Twill that have evolved any type of fur or hair and the Du'lak are no exception. Their faces are very similar to Terrans but with a few differences, the least noticeable would be their having four top incisors and two bottom ones. More noticeably would be that although their faces are not striped they have "flat" noses, they are wider and protrude less. The most noticeable feature however would be that in place of their hair they have three tentacles called "Xy'E'Tendris" that protrude from the rear of their heads. These Xy'E'Tendris usually reach down to around their waist, sometimes longer and are tipped with small protrusions including fins, spikes or spines, depending on their heritage.

(Side note: while this race was heavily based on star wars' Twi'lek, for their initial look they have been tweaked to be changed significantly, one day I'll find a way to 3D model/draw a Du'lak head to prove this point in a later post. They also share very few cultural similarities.)

FRAYAN

The Frayans were the last race to join the alliance. They were initially very seclusive and it took them many generations to integrate fully. They are the shortest lived species, with an average lifespan of around 80 to 120 Terran years. Their home world, Fraya, is primarily covered in large oceans with only small islands that are inhabited. The Frayan's learnt to preserve their natural habitat and quickly became masters of building sea-ships. With little to no space to expand on Fraya they set out to explore the stars, eventually colonising another habitable world in their star system with significantly more landmass.

They Frayans are thought to have evolved from a dog-like species. Their facial structure is closer to a dog's than a Terran's and although they are humanoid they are covered in a short fur. They have a long and often bushy tail that helps them balance but  they have little to no conscious control over it. Their ears stand upright atop their head in a wolf-like fashion, however they often add one or two feet to their hight. The Frayans are usually the shortest of the races, reaching only four and a half feet at maximum (ears excluded). They are also the lightest and most agile race in the alliance.

DRACON

The Dracons were the third race to join the alliance. They were initially found by the alliance as little more than tribal savages. Their society progressed from tribes to thriving cities in as little as six generations. They were first contacted as a civilised society when the orbit of a satellite set up to watch them decayed until it crashed into the outskirts of a town, giving the alliance no choice but to reveal themselves. The Dracons were surprisingly accepting of the revelation of the alliance however they were not invited to and did not want to join them then. They reverse engineered the satellite until they constructed functioning, if dubious, starships. The world of Draco was a barren wasteland, with few plants and large mountain ranges. The Dracons moved off-world shortly into three orbital structures where they could escape the harsh heats and more easily grow crops.

They are taller, heavier and generally stronger than any of the other races in the alliance, often reaching 8 or 9 feet tall, they have thick scaled hides designed for close quarters combat, they are humanoid but with long tails and large leathery wings they are the most varied on that theme.